Lethe
noun
a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
Lethean
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a word derived from
Lethe.
Example Sentences
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It's less a lethal than a Lethean weapon, ie something resembling the river Lethe's mind-numbing waters which induce eternal forgetfulness of everything but better films on the same subject.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2010
Even, 'tis said, gentle Lethean dews bring blessed forgetfulness, release from love lost, sin committed.
From The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon
It is not a vulgar sensuality, a Lethean torpor; the triumph of the grosser nature over the eternal principle within.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
To hear, to see, to live, was on that morn Lethean joy.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
This blank tract of repulsive land, so strangely dedicated to death, had lost every hint of Lethean likeness.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
